The Environmental Protection Authority will visit Broome this month to meet with community members about the proposed Browse Liquefied Natural Gas Precinct at James Price Point.

EPA Chairman Paul Vogel said the proposal would be discussed with representatives from a cross-section of the community, including the Shire of Broome, the Kimberley Land Council, Goolarabooloo and Goolarabooloo Jabirr Jabirr Traditional Owners, Environs Kimberley and the Save the Kimberley group.

The Environmental Protection Authority has released advice and recommendations to the Minister for Environment on the proposal to subdivide lots 1000, 2240, 2275, 2657 and 3045 Preston Beach Road, Lake Clifton by Cape Bouvard Investments Pty Ltd.

The proposal site is an enclave within the adjacent Yalgorup National Park, as it is bound by the ocean to the west, a rural property along a portion of its southern boundaries and Yalgorup NP along all the remaining boundaries. The proposal would result in the clearing of 114.5 hectares of native vegetation.

The Environmental Protection Authority has set level of assessment and released advice and recommendations to the Minister for Environment on the proposal to extend the transport depot at Lot 14 Great Northern Highway, Upper Swan by Mr Adrian Bracjkovich.

While many of the matters raised by Peter Kerr in his article, Margaret River mine ban rushed (AFR, 2nd May 2011) are dealt with in the EPA’s report on the Vasse Coal proposal released yesterday and will also be dealt with in any subsequent appeal to the Minister for Environment, I cannot let a couple of statements made in his article pass without comment.

The Environmental Protection Authority has set level of assessment and released advice and recommendations to the Minister for Environment on the proposal by the Department of Environment and Conservation to construct and maintain a 45 kilometre coastal walk trail from Point Ann to Hamersley Inlet, through the Wilderness Management Zone of the Fitzgerald River National Park.

The Environmental Protection Authority has released advice and recommendations to the Minister for Environment on a proposal by LandCorp to develop a residential subdivision on Emu Point Drive, Albany.

The Environmental Protection Authority has released advice and recommendations to the Minister for Environment following the Strategic Environmental Assessment of a proposal by Landcorp to identify an appropriate development footprint and Conservation Area within a 339 ha area in the Rockingham Industrial Zone.